Ticket-holder.



PATENTED DEC. 11, 1906.

' No. 838,004. I

A. L. BRYANT. TICKET HOLDER. APPLICATION FILED 33.17, 1906.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ALBERT L. BRYANT, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

TICKET-HOLDER.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ALBERT L. BRYANT, a citizen of the United States, residing at Boston, in the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in TicketI-Iolders;

' and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to new and useful improvements in ticket-holders, and more particularly to that class of holders adapted to be used in connection with the backs of seats in railway-trains; and the object of my device isto provide means to retain the identification-check of the conductor and display the same in such a position that it will be presented to view at all times.

Another object of my invention is to provide a suitable locking means for retaining the identification-check within the ticketholder.

Other objects and advantages will be here'- inafter made clearly apparent in the speciii cation and pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, which are made a part of this application, I have shown the preferred forms of my invention.

In said drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of a portion of the back of a seat, showing my ticket-holder placed therein. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal vertical section through the ticket-holder and a portion of the seat-back. Fig. 3 is a sectional view through the seatback and ticket-holder as seen from line 3 3, Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is a perspective view of the ticket-holder removed from the seat-back. Fig. 5 is a sectional view through the seat back, showing a slightly-modified form of ticket-holder in section applied thereto; and

Fig. 6 is a perspective view of this form of ticket-holder removed from the seat-back.

Referring to the figures by numerals of reference, 1 is the back of a seat, and 2 the frame portion of the back, and 3 the usual form of upholstering covering said frame. The form of ticket-holder herein shown is adapted more Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed February 17,1906- Serial No. 301,703.

Patented Dec.11, 1906.

seat by means of screws 6 or other preferred means, and when said screws are driven home the plate 5 is embedded in the uphol stering of the seat, thereby leaving the upper edge of the plate 5 flush with the surface of the surrounding upholstering. Formed integral with the edges of the plate 5- are depending arms 7 and 8, said arms being pro vided with V-shaped notches in their lower ends for a purpose to be hereinafter de: scribed. The arm 7 is made longer thanv the arm 8, and the extreme lower edge thereof is bent over the arm 8 to form retaining mem bers 9, thereby securing said arms 7 and 8 together at their lower ends. The depending arms 7 and 8 are directed inwardly near their union with the plate 5, thereby providing locking means for the ticket when the same is inserted between said arms 7 and 8.

In order to enter the ticket between the arms 7 and 8, the plate 5 is provided with a pair of elongated slots 10, through which the ticket is adapted to pass, and thencebetween the arms 7 and 8. By directing the depend ing arms inwardly, so that the major portions thereof are in close proximity to each other, a tension is provided when a ticket or the like is inserted therebetween. The object of the V-shaped notches 11 in the lower ends of said arms 7 and Sis to allow any dirt, pieces of tickets, or the like to pass down wardly from between said arms into the bottom of the slot 4, so that there will be no, accumulation of material between said arms to direct them apart and prevent them from holding the ticket therebetween.

In Figs. 5 and 6 the depending arms 8 are dispensed with and a curved spring member 12 substituted therefor, said member 12 being retained in position between the turned-over edge 13 of the plate 5 and the retaining members 9 of the member 7 In this construc tion the arm 7 a is directed straight downward from the plate 5 and at right angles thereto. It will be understood that there is to be one of the ticket-holders upon each edge of the seat-back when said backs are revoluble from edge to edge of the seat proper but in cases where said back merely slides from one edge to the other of the seat it will only be necessary to employ one of the ticket-holders, the same being placed in the upper edge of the seatback.

In use the conductor ascertains the destination of the passenger, whereupon he so makes an identification-slip that he can tell IIO at a glance the destination of the passenger, whereupon he places the ticket in the holder by inserting one end of the same through the slot 10 and between the depending arms 7 and 8, and, as there is more or less tension on the arms, the lower end of the ticket is socurely held therebetween.

ing rdiiierent destinations, the identificationslip is deposited in that slot corresponding with the position of the passenger in the seat. By this eonstnnction the annoyance of lost identification-cheeks is obviated and said checks are at all times in plain View of the conductor passing through the aisle of the train, so that it will not be necessary to distnrh the passengers in order to ascertain their destination.

In Figs. '15 and =6 of the drawings the curved member 12 is so arranged that the major portion thereof parallels the d pending arm 7 and said arm 12 is so constructed that a tension is exerted against the arm 7, so that when a ticket is inserted through the slot 10 the tower end thereof is engaged between the arm 7 a and member 112 and securely held in place.

What I rel-aim is- 1. The combination with a seat-back having an opening therein; of a ticket-holder comprising a slotted horizontal plate, depending arms termed at the longitudinal 1 edges of and integral with said plate, means tosecure the lower ends of said arms together, and additional means to secure said ticketholder to the seat-back;

2. A ticket-holder of the class described comprising a horizontally-disposed slotted If th p th t h plate, arms integral with said plat d d ere are wo assengers 1n esea avpending therefrom, and retaining members at the lower end of one of said arms adapted to engage the opposite arm and secure said arms together at their lower ends.

3, A ticket-holder comprising the combinat-ien with a horizontal slotted plate; of depending arms, said arms having V-shaped notches at their lower ends to form assages for dirt, &c., and means to secure t e lower ends of said arms together.

4. A ticket-holder comprising a horizontally-disposed slotted plate having inwardly and downwardly projecting arms, means to seoune said arms together at their lower ends, said arms being provided with V-shaped notches for the passage of dirt, &c., there through.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two suibscr-ibing witnesses.

E. F. GILL, BENNETT S. JONES. 

